Coming fashionably late to the party, I thought I’d have a go at the census meme that’s been floating around this past couple of weeks, occasioned by the fact that we completed ours last night online and it’s done and dusted.
I am going to start in reverse order, i.e. oldest first and move up to date. It just seems better that way, though it gives away my increasing antiquity from the very start, sadly.
1961: Bryan is two years old and not generally aware of a great deal other than when his next meal might arrive. He is living in Wellington (not yet designated Telford; that is still some years away), Shropshire, with his Mum and Dad. He is for his first census, an only child. This will be remedied within two years. Buddy Holly has been dead 1 day longer than Bryan has been alive. There are few signs if any at this stage, that Bryan is a reincarnation of
The Music1971: Bryan has reached the tender age of twelve and is not generally aware of a great deal other than when his next meal might arrive. He is living in Wrockwardine Wood, which is part of Telford (as is the afore-to-mentioned Wellington), a designated “New Town”, with his Mum and Dad and increasingly irritating younger sister, who seems to be a genetic throwback to an evolutionary stage where humans had claws and stealth abilities. He has somehow passed his
eleven plus around 18 months earlier and is now attending Adams’ Grammar School in Newport, Shropshire. It is somewhere around this time that he first meets the entity one day to be known as
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telemeister. The Beatles have split, Bowie is about to enter his ‘Ziggy Stardust’ phase. There are few signs if any at this stage, that Bryan is a reincarnation of
The Music.
1981: Now aged twenty two, Bryan is not generally aware of a great deal other than when his next meal might arrive. Still officially domiciled in Telford with Mum, Dad and slightly less annoying and more evolved younger sister, Bryan lives during term time in Wolverhampton, becoming increasingly worried that as he approaches the finals for his degree course later in the year, nearly four years of drinking and going to gigs may not have been the best preparation for life changing examinations. Frankly he is pooing himself and compensating by redoubling his efforts in the union bar. John Lennon is dead. There are few signs if any at this stage, that Bryan is a reincarnation of
The Music.
1991: Living in Clapham, south London, working for the Government, Bryan is not generally aware of a great deal other than when his next meal might arrive though unlike ten years previously it is now up to him to ponder the ‘hows’ as well as the ‘whens’. Elsewhere in the house, other than a mad Polish landlady, there is the entity one day to be known as
colonel_maxim. Freddie Mercury is dead; there are few signs if any at this stage, that Bryan is a reincarnation of
The Music.
2001: Significantly unchanged in circumstances since ten years earlier, though with rather less hair and a rather bigger waist line. John Phillips of the
Mamas and the Papas has literally just died (18 May 2001). There are few signs if any at this stage, that Bryan is a reincarnation of
The Music.
2011: Many changes, though Bryan is not generally aware of a great deal other than what his next meal might be when it arrives. Having skipped from Clapham to Whetstone, north London, switched address in that village and settled into domestic bliss with the lovely entity that has for sometime now been known as
ellefurtle, the happy pair have purchased the
Gin Palace in the London Borough of Redbridge and become members of the Ilford Massive. More changes are anticipated, including a ritual colloquially known as “the tying of the knot.” Any recent deaths in the world of music are comparatively obscure and it is slowly becoming apparent that Bryan is not and never will be, a reincarnation of
The Music.
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